The Skripal case shows how Russian intelligence services have the confidence to carry out shoddy operations, seemingly unconcerned about whether or not they will be discovered.
The foreign secretary faces new questions over his involvement in a £161,000 donation by the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former finance minister to the Conservative party in the wake of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
Theresa May faces increasing pressure to take action against those responsible for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter.
The annual G7 talks in Italy this week will be dominated by discussions on how to persuade Russia to distance itself from the Assad regime in Syria in the wake of last week’s chemical attack.
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and eleven more injured after a miscommunication caused a Russian jet to fire on their location in northern Syria.